War & PeaceWar and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (18731877). It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these